Great sentence: "The invaders seemed to know a lot about the demons and wicked things that live in their imaginations, but little about peace and friendship."
I do feel better today thanks xx I’ll never be able to understand why people behave like zombies though. Don’t they believe that their god gave them brains? And not just to make a snack for someone either.
I’m afraid I’ve stopped thinking about Trump altogether. They voted for him, they can deal with him. At least in Europe the idea is slowly growing that he is the best thing that’s happened to us in ages. We’ll actually start doing our own thing without having to ask permission from Uncle Sam first, or have to worry about causing offence when we say we don’t actually want another missile base or any more Jack Daniel’s.
I agree making Europe more self-reliant is a good thing, but I feel sorry for the millions of Americans who didn’t vote for him. Unfortunately he is also causing damage more widely, Ukraine being a prime example.
That’s exactly why I don’t feel sorry for them. I commiserate with some as individuals, but the US has always practiced economic imperialism, shafting every nation under the sun for the greater comfort of US citizens. Trump isn’t a freak of nature, it’s been American policy since forever, Republican and Democrat both. He just tells people that their selfish greed is heroic and wonderful. It’s an unsustainable lifestyle and we shouldn’t even be aspiring to it. My compassion goes to the women and children in Iran, Afghanistan and the umpteen African states where they are being butchered, children sent to fight, girls turned into sex slaves. They have no possibility of changing things. The Americans have the vote.
This is wonderful world-building - and I do love your worlds. xxx
Thank you. History is always just interpretation, and in my history, the early missionaries were just the spearhead of the colonisation programme.
Indeed! xx
Great sentence: "The invaders seemed to know a lot about the demons and wicked things that live in their imaginations, but little about peace and friendship."
Thanks Patrick. I don’t think they’ve changed much.
One would think we would learn eventually.
Well done, Jane.
Thanks Margaret xx In some parts of the world, the evangelists have never been so popular. Beggars belief, doesn’t it?
There's a whole subset of folks out there who are desperate to hand their money over to the grifters of the world. Must be baked into the species?
Feel better! x
I do feel better today thanks xx I’ll never be able to understand why people behave like zombies though. Don’t they believe that their god gave them brains? And not just to make a snack for someone either.
Haha!
Very evocative. I kept thinking of Donald Trump and his band of sewer clowns as I read this, although sadly there is no Guardian to stop them.
I’m afraid I’ve stopped thinking about Trump altogether. They voted for him, they can deal with him. At least in Europe the idea is slowly growing that he is the best thing that’s happened to us in ages. We’ll actually start doing our own thing without having to ask permission from Uncle Sam first, or have to worry about causing offence when we say we don’t actually want another missile base or any more Jack Daniel’s.
I agree making Europe more self-reliant is a good thing, but I feel sorry for the millions of Americans who didn’t vote for him. Unfortunately he is also causing damage more widely, Ukraine being a prime example.
That’s exactly why I don’t feel sorry for them. I commiserate with some as individuals, but the US has always practiced economic imperialism, shafting every nation under the sun for the greater comfort of US citizens. Trump isn’t a freak of nature, it’s been American policy since forever, Republican and Democrat both. He just tells people that their selfish greed is heroic and wonderful. It’s an unsustainable lifestyle and we shouldn’t even be aspiring to it. My compassion goes to the women and children in Iran, Afghanistan and the umpteen African states where they are being butchered, children sent to fight, girls turned into sex slaves. They have no possibility of changing things. The Americans have the vote.